American - Musician | October 3, 1982 -
I don't really write all that well with others.
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I was gonna work in a university, but no one was hiring.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world.
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I remember at one point, with a previous release of mine, I stumbled upon a shareware site, and the total number of downloads was in the thousands, maybe the hundreds of thousands. But there's no doubt that the Internet and that kind of sharing has been a huge benefit for the band.
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I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
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My philosophy is generally to keep things as simple as possible.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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